Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (NY-25) announced the upcoming introduction of the Pharmaceutical Stewardship Act, a federal bill that would require pharmaceutical companies to manage and finance the safe collection and disposal of their products.

Stewardship organizations representing brand owners of packaging from Quebec, British Columbia, and Belgium outlined the success of their EPR programs and how these models can be easily applied to the U.S. market.

The importance of recycling batteries, electronics, and other products containing rare earth metals, and how this propels us toward a circular economy that reduces the costs and impacts of future mining; and

Why the U.S. is at a competitive disadvantage to other countries that require brand owners to properly manage the packaging they produce.

The Product Stewardship Institute (PSI) is a national, membership-based nonprofit committed to reducing the health, safety, and environmental impacts of consumer products across their life cycle with a strong focus on sustainable end-of-life management. Headquartered in Boston, Mass., PSI takes a unique product stewardship approach to solving waste management problems by encouraging product design changes and mediating stakeholder dialogues.With 47 state environmental agency members, along with hundreds of local government members from coast-to-coast, and 110 corporate, business, academic, non-U.S. government, and organizational partners, we work to design, implement, evaluate, strengthen, and promote both legislative and voluntary product stewardship initiatives across North America. Like us on Facebookor follow us on Twitter.